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Updated: June 7, 2025
He was one of our outfit and was known as Windy Bill. Nuff said! "Hear you're goin' up to stay the night at Hooper's," said he. "Know Hooper?" "No, I don't," said I, "are you another of these Sunbirds with glad news?" "Know about Hooper's boomerang?" "Boomerang!" I replied, "what's that?" "That's what they call it.
It constructs a nest of grass on the ground, into which the common cuckoo, of which more anon, frequently drops an egg. The sunbirds are feathered exquisites. They take in the Old World the place in the New World occupied by the humming-birds. Sunbirds, however, are superior to humming-birds in that they possess the gift of song.
In the woods are birds with very bright colors. There are birds called sunbirds. Often green, yellow, scarlet, and purple feathers are found on these birds. What a pretty sight it must be to see them flit about in the sun! There are also many kinds of pretty flowers in the woods. These flowers are as gay in color as the birds. Many tribes of negroes live in the Kongo Valley.
Owing to the great preponderance among the birds, of parrots, pigeons, kingfishers, and sunbirds, almost all of gay or delicate colours, and many adorned with the most gorgeous plumage, and to the numbers of very large and showy butterflies which are almost everywhere to be met with, the forests of the Moluccas offer to the naturalist a very striking example of the luxuriance and beauty of animal life in the tropics.
Flower-peckers, like sunbirds, are feathered exquisites. The habits of the two families are very similar, save that flower-peckers dwell among the foliage of trees, while sunbirds, after the manner of butterflies, sip the nectar from flowers that grow near the ground. Every hill-garden can boast of one or two flower-peckers. These are among the smallest birds in existence.
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